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This book offers a new account of the origins of modern biblical criticism. Focusing on the scholarship of J. D. Michaelis (1717-1791), it shows how critics created a post-theological academic Bible to replace Europe's scriptural Bibles and assimilate biblical scholarship to the social goals of the Enlightenment....

These twelve new studies illustrate some of the techniques employed in        intellectual history today. Exploring themes and issues pertaining to religion,        philosophy, and their interrelations, as they exercised British thinkers in the long        eighteenth century, they further our understanding of the period when some of the        most...

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The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme CourtIn his new book, Michael Perry evaluates the grave charge that the modern Supreme Court has engineered a 'judicial usurpation of politics'. In particular, Perry inquires which of the several Fourteenth Amendment conflicts - the conflicts over race segregation, race-based affirmative action, sex-based...

Prudentius' CathemerinonO'Daly looks at Prudentius' lyric poems, the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, and        how they achieve a remarkable creative tension between the two worlds that        determined Prudentius' culture: the beliefs and practices, sacred books, and        doctrines of Christianity and the traditions, poetry, and ideas of the...